>>32638With any other model, yeah, but BITD she had a cargo cult-like following on Dimensions that would trade all kinds of crazy info about her, for years after she’d disappeared for good. Every week or month or so someone would post trying to find Kelligirl and it became an inside joke among Dims regulars. We’d try to top each other posting crazy responses — she’s with the Daiai Lama, she’s Bill Clinton’s new intern, etc.
The Kelligirl phenomena is worthy of a Netflix documentary IMO. I’m not kidding — I think it would be interesting even for non-FAs as a prime piece of internet WTF that spans decades.
Here are my memories of her, and I might be off in my sequencing and (vague) timeline. Apologies if that’s the case.
Back in the late 80s-early 90s, BUF was pretty much the only consistent outlet for BBW newsstand porn. It was poorly produced, poorly edited, came out erratically, etc but I bought it regularly because it was the only show in town unless you wanted to go to a porn store.
One day new BBW appeared on the cover and I was smitten. She was kneeling on the bed in a purple negligee, wonderful pear-shaped body and thin, gorgeous face. Mind you, pre-internet BBW models tended to be on the rough side — older, unattractive, less-than-ideal body types, road damage, trailer park/ghetto aura to them, etc. This model was young, smooth, healthy- and innocent-looking, with a huge, genuine smile. (Though with tragic 80s hair, can’t have it all.)
I look inside and she doesn’t have a feature. She’s only on the cover, no explanation. Oh well, that’s BUF for you. Two issues later, the letters section has three queries, all to the effect of “OMG WHO WAS ON THAT COVER SHOW ME MORE.” No responses from the editor. Again, BUF.
Then nothing more for, like, 5 years.
Then she reappears online on Dimensionsmagazine.com, the OG fa-bbw chat board, as KELLIGIRL. (The WWW having become a thing in the meantime.) She posts a bunch of photos 50± pounds bigger, still gorgeous, and reveals she’s a feedee. Even the hair is better. Holy fucking shit.
Along with all these awesome pics, she announces a zine, Bulge, where she’ll print exclusive photos and feedee content. Lots of people sign up, including myself. Bulge is okay, not great, but again, we’re all pretty starved for feeder content back then. There’s a yearly subscription option, but I don’t fall for it, paying issue by issue. She also starts pre-selling a video, releasing very short, lo-rez teaser clips (all one could realistically post back then, this still the era where DSL was hot shit).
She puts out a few issues and then starts posting excuses. The video doesn’t happen. People start calling her out on her chicanery. She disappears once more.
The cargo cult begins — When is she coming back? No, seriously, WHEN??? Lots of rumors, no proof.
Two years later (?) she comes back once more. She’s visibly bigger (win) but the pics are grainy and very lo-rez. Digital technology has improved since her first postings, yet these are much worse. Her face is recognizable but looks really weird. WTF with her face???*
(* My guess: A big part of her brand was big body, thin face. To me it looked like bad photoshop to cover up that her face had caught up with her body. If there’s one thing women are self-conscious of, it’s having a double chin and chipmunk cheeks. Just saying.)
Kelligirl disappears once more, this time for good. The cargo cult restarts, even more berserk, the rumors as well: She had WLS. Her husband insisted she stop modeling. She’s 600 pounds and bedridden in New Jersey. It becomes a cliche on Dims, well into the 00s, where newbies ask about Kelligirl and regulars try to outdo each other explaining her whereabouts. (She’s with the Dailai Lama, she’s Bill Clinton’s new intern, she’s 10,000 pounds in a saline tank at the Mayo Clinic, etc.)
Far as I know there’s been nothing since the 00s weird face pics, but the cargo cult lives on. And thus our fabulist "friend" and his tale of phantom SM popularity and belly button fucking.
